Flexible spiral tube



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Dec. 18, i923.

A. H. DOLGE ET AL FLEXIBLE SPIRAL TUBE Filed lAprill.- I? 1920 NVENTORSATTORNEYS Patented Een. 18, i923.

NETE@ STATES lht'lttt PATENT FWQE.

ARTHUR H. DOLGE AND CHARLES F. HENDRICKS, F 1TIES'IPGRT, CONNECTCUT.

FLEXIBLE SPIRAL TUBE.

Application led April 17, 1920. Serial No. 374,745.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR H. DoLGn and CHARLES F. HENDRICKS, citizensof the United States, residing at Westport, in the county ofFairiieldand State of Connecti cut, have invented new and useful Improvements inFlexible Spiral Tubes, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention pertains to tubes that are employed by embalinersand it contemplates the provision of a tube for use in relieving gasesfrom the stomach of the dead and at the same time removing matter thathas fermented in the stomach and also for the supplying of preservingfluids to the stomach and intestines.

The invention in all of its details will be fully understood from thefollowing description and claim when the same are read in connectionwith the drawings accompanying and forming part of this application inwhich Figure l is a side elevation of our novel tube.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of a portion thereof.

Figure 3 is a View partly in side elevation and partly in section of thetube.

Figure et is a detail View of one end of the tube and taken in section.

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in all the views of thedrawings.

Uur novel device comprises a tube l of flexible material that is securedat one end to a connecting tip 7 that in turn is interiorly ybored asindicated by 8 and because of the construction of this tip 7 the tubemay be secured to a hose or other connection in the ordinary well knownmanner. At its opposite end from the tip 7 the tube is set0 curedintegrally to the tine bendable metal 2. 0n the other end of the tube 2is a cap provided with interior bore 6. This cap is indicated by 3 andhas the elongated opening 5 at the ends of which are depressions 45 orrecesses 4.

Because of the bendable character of the fine tubing 2 it will bemanifest that the flexible tube l will be assisted in following thepassage of the cap 3 down through the 50 esophagus into the stomach.Manifestly the flexible spiral portion 2 is not intended as a drainagebut merely as a means of enabling the hose l to pass the curvature ofthe throat into the esophagus. 55

Having described our invention, what we claiin and desire to secure byLetters Patent Tn a device for the purpose set forth, the combination ofa flexible tube, a tip secured 00 to one end, a flexible metal spiraltube of fine wire connected integrally to one end of the tube, a capsecured on the upper end of the fine tube, openings formed in the sidewalls of the cap and depressions arranged adjacent the openings. A Tntestimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR H. DOLGE. CHARLES F. HENDRICKS. lVitnesses WALTER l?. CoLLiNGs,Bonnin M. HOMER.

